White House Sees 'No Alternative' to NSA's 'Collect It All' Approach [View all]

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Published on Tuesday, November 5, 2013 by Common Dreams

Obama White House Sees 'No Alternative' to NSA's 'Collect It All' Approach
Bulk collection of 'metadata' to continue if NSA "needle in a haystack" argument continues to receive support from Obama administration

- Jon Queally, staff writer


Unfortunately for those concerned about the bulk collection of private communications by the government, the Obama administration just doesn't see another way conducting its spy business.

When it came to the question of neoliberal capitalism it was former British PM Margaret Thatcher who famously declared, "There is no alternative."

Now—in the face of growing concern and criticism over the global dragnet surveillance programs run by the NSA and other U.S. intelligence agencies determined to "collect it all"—it is the Obama White House saying, in effect, the same thing.

As the New York Times reports Tuesday, after six months of one revelation after another regarding the far-reaching nature of the nation's spy apparatus, "President Obama and his top advisers have concluded that there is no workable alternative to the bulk collection of huge quantities of 'metadata,' including records of all telephone calls made inside the United States." .....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/05-0